Gabriel Byrne
Acting
- Born:
- 1950-05-12
- Place of birth:
- Dublin, Ireland
Biography
Gabriel James Byrne (born 12 May 1950) is an Irish actor. He has received a Golden Globe Award and nominations for a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards. Byrne was awarded the Irish Film and Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and was listed at number 17 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors in 2020. In 2009, The Guardian named him one of the best actors who never received an Academy Award nomination. Byrne's acting career began at the Focus Theatre in Dublin before he joined London's Royal Court Theatre in 1974. His screen debut came in the Irish drama serial The Riordans and the spin-off show Bracken. He went on to star in such films as Defence of the Realm (1986), Lionheart (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990), Little Women (1994), Dead Man (1995), The Usual Suspects (1995), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), Enemy of the State (1998), Vanity Fair (2004), The 33 (2015), and Hereditary (2018). He co-wrote The Last of the High Kings (1996) and produced In the Name of the Father (1993). For his Broadway work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his roles in the Eugene O'Neill plays A Moon for the Misbegotten (2000) and Long Day's Journey into Night (2016). For his television work, Byrne has received two nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Paul Weston in the HBO drama series In Treatment (2008–2010). He also received a Golden Globe Award. His other notable television roles include Vikings (2013), Maniac (2018), and War of the Worlds (2019–2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gabriel Byrne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
A World War II Fairy Tale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'
Four Letters of Love
Ballerina
Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
Dance First
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend
Murder at Yellowstone City
Walking with Ghosts
Death of a Ladies' Man
Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
ZeroZeroZero
Lost Girls
War of the Worlds
Cursed: The True Nature of Hereditary
Maniac
An L.A. Minute
Hereditary
My Astonishing Self: Gabriel Byrne on George Bernard Shaw
In the Cloud
Lies We Tell
Atlantic Salmon: Lost at Sea
Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death
Mad to Be Normal
Carrie Pilby
No Pay, Nudity
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Endless Night
Louder Than Bombs
The 33
Vikings: Athelstan's Journal
Quirke
Vampire Academy
Excalibur: Behind the Movie
Just a Sigh
All Things To All Men
Vikings
Capital
Secret State
John Ford: Dreaming the Quiet Man
I, Anna
A Man's Story
The Women of SNL
Perrier's Bounty
The Meaning of Life
Leningrad
2:22
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center
Emotional Arithmetic
In Treatment
Attack on Leningrad
Leningrad
Saturday Night Live in the '90s: Pop Culture Nation
The Graham Norton Show
Jindabyne
Played
Wah-Wah
Assault on Precinct 13
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
P.S.
Vanity Fair
Patrick
Shade
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Spider
Ghost Ship
Horses: The Story of Equus
Pursuing the Suspects
Killing Emmett Young
Keyser Soze, Lie or Legend - Featurette
Round Up: Deposing 'The Usual Suspects'
Virginia's Run
When Brendan Met Trudy
Madigan Men
Making Love
End of Days
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Stigmata
Enemy of the State
Quest for Camelot
Pirates
The Man in the Iron Mask
Polish Wedding
Nothing Is What It Seems: The Making Of 'The Usual Suspects'
This Is the Sea
The End of Violence
The View
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Somebody Is Waiting
The Last of the High Kings
The Brylcreem Boys
Mad Dog Time
Draíocht
Dead Man
Irish Cinema: Ourselves Alone?
Frankie Starlight
The Usual Suspects
Out of Ireland
Buffalo Girls
Little Women
Trial by Jury
A Simple Twist of Fate
Inside the Actors Studio
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Prince of Jutland
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
A Dangerous Woman
Point of No Return
Into the West
Cool World
Shipwrecked
Miller's Crossing
Diamond Skulls
A Soldier's Tale
The Courier
Julia and Julia
Siesta
Hello Again
Lionheart
Gothic
Defence of the Realm
Mussolini: The Untold Story
Christopher Columbus
Reflections
The Treatment
The Keep
Hanna K.
Joyce in June
The Rocking Horse Winner
The Search for Alexander the Great
Excalibur
Bracken
The Outsider
On a Paving Stone Mounted
The Last of Summer
Strangers
Live from Lincoln Center
Saturday Night Live
Film '72
Tony Awards
Sauver Mozart